Obama Llama Where's My Mama?

Most Moms have read Llama, Llama Red Pajama to the their kids. I personally haven't. My friend Shanna read it to me when she found out I hadn't read it yet. She's very good at reading out loud. :-) She made the freaked out little Llama looking for his mama sound really freaked out.

With all this news coverage of Obama urging Moms to go back to school I keep thinking it won't be long until we see the book rewritten with the new title Obama Llama Where's My Mama?

Now, I've no problem with Mama's going back to school. I will become concerned, however, if we get a bunch of freaked out little llamas running around, in red pajamas, wondering where their Mamas are.

Someone should start working on this rewrite. Not me, but someone....

Post Update

Mom called to let me know that Howells went out of business after she read my post titled 'Pappy-Chapter 2' dated 8.13.09.

I guess they couldn't get the cameras back together. So sad.

My Pappy - Chapter 2

After Pappy died my brothers and I were down in his shop. We stood there looking at two Hasselblads that were completely torn apart. Pappy had started the repair job for a local photo shop named Howells.

Wes, Nate, and I looked at the cameras then looked at each other. Then looked at the cameras, then looked at each other. "What do you think?", "I don't know, what do you think?", "Can you fix that?", "Hh, NO!, Can you?", "Nope", "What should we do?", "No idea", "Hmph". We walked out shaking our heads thinking "Sure glad I'm not Howells".

Wes got the fun job of bagging up the tiny pieces and taking them back to the owner. Wes handed over about $60,000 worth of itsy bitsy torn apart camera pieces with a "Sorry, Jim died. Hope you can find someone to put these back together for you. Have a good day."

The image of that poor man standing there in what must have been stunned silence still makes me laugh. Not many people have the skill to put a $30,000 camera back together these days. Pappy was one of a kind. He is missed. Wonder if Howells ever got the cameras put back together....

Photos From the Past Month

I need to be better at posting pictures as they're taken. Here is a photo of Aaron from Roland and Aaron's Adventure to Southern Virginia. Two dirty kids getting a bath before dinnner.

Treats after playing in the water.

Playing Candyland with Dad.

Some of our friends.

Roland and Aaron going for a run in the rain. Aaron's face after one week.

Aaron's face the day after.

Foamhenge. Ha, Ha.

Kids at the Natural Bridge gift shop. Yum! White Tiger at the Natural Bridge Zoo. My favorite zoo!
Feeding the animals.

Wish I had her eyelashes!

Monkey House

A Goose in the Tub...

We had a fun day of playing in the water with friends. The kids were a mess so we came in and I plopped them in the tub. Peter stood up for a few seconds to play with the downspout just as Aaron stretched out. Peter sat down right on Aaron's toes. I don't think I've ever seen him stand up that fast.

As a plaque that's in my brother's shower says, "A Goose in the Shower is Good Clean Fun."

The Adventures of Roland and Aaron

They made it home safe and sound, although tired (I expected the tired part).

From what I can gather from short bursts of information they didn't see the race because of rain. They camped on Roland/Aaron Mountain. They did a 6 mile hike that Aaron did amazingly well on. While hiking they skinny dipped in the river and ponds, and ate sardine sandwiches for lunch, still can't believe that one. Listened to Bluegrass music in Buena Vista, and had dinner with some friends that moved down there a few years ago. All in all they had a good time being together.

Peter and I had great naps and a quiet house. It was a good weekend for all of us.

P.S. We just discovered that Aaron brought home a friend. Too bad the deer tick had to die....